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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Chronicles 23 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 2 Chronicles 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/22.htm" title="2 Chronicles 22">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 23 <a href="../2_chronicles/24.htm" title="2 Chronicles 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_chronicles/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Joash Made King</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">a</a></sup></span> said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke concerning the sons of David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let no one enter the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”</p> <p class="heading">Athaliah Executed</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So they laid hands on her,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or they made a passage for her">b</a></sup></span> and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they put her to death there.</p> <p class="heading">Jehoiada’s Reforms</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, to offer burnt offerings to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king on the royal throne. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Hebrew <i>he</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">they</span> made a passage for her</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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